tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Sep 28 12:05:21 1994
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Pronunciation
- From: [email protected] (George Aaron Broadwell)
- Subject: Pronunciation
- Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1994 15:03:43 -0400
If it is of any use to people, this is a linguist's impression of what
Okrand is describing:
"q" = a uvular stop, like those found in Quechua or Arabic (IPA symbol: [q]),
"Q" = a (voiceless) uvular fricative, like a voiceless version of French [r]
(IPA symbol Greek chi),
H = a voiceless velar fricative, like German "ch" (IPA [x]),
gh = a voiced velar fricative, as in Arabic [IPA symbol gamma].
If any of you are at universities with a linguistics department, ask a
linguist (nicely) to make the sounds I just described for you. [IPA =
International Phonetic Alphabet, a way linguists have of describing sounds.]
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George Aaron Broadwell, [email protected]
Anthropology; Linguistics and Cognitive Science,
SUNY-Albany, Albany, NY 12222
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